different between aba vs ara

aba

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic ????????? (?ab??a). Compare abaya.

Alternative forms

abba

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??b??/
(General American) IPA^(key): /??b?/

Noun

aba (countable and uncountable, plural abas)

A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.
A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs. [First attested in the early 19^th century.]
- 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:
  Here Nessim would sit night after night in the winter, dressed in his old rust-coloured abba, staring gravely at Betelgeuse, or hovering over books of calculations for all the world like a medieval soothsayer.
An outer garment made of the above, very simple in form, worn by the Arabs of the desert. The illustration shows such an aba, made of two breadths of stuff sewed together to make an oblong about four by nine feet.

Synonyms

abaya

Translations

Etymology 2

From the name of its creator, the French explorer A. T. d' Abbadie.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /?æ.b?/

Noun

aba (plural abas)

An altazimuth used for astronomy on either land or water.

Etymology 3

Noun

aba (plural abas)

The electric fish Gymnarchus niloticus (frankfish, freshwater rat-tail, African knifefish), found in swamps, lakes and rivers in Africa.

Translations

References

1889 Century Dictionary, volume 1 page 3

Anagrams

AAB, BAA, baa

Akan

Pronunciation

Tone: LH

Noun

aba (plural aba)

seed(s)
fruit

Derived terms

wawa aba

References

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (abâ) (Turkish aba), from Arabic ????????? (?ab??a).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [a?ba]

Noun

aba f (indefinite plural aba, definite singular abaja, definite plural abat)

(old) thin felt (usually white or gray)

Arawak

Numeral

aba

(Western Arawak) one.

Synonyms

áb?

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /??b?/
Hyphenation: a?ba

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *apa (“father”).

Noun

aba (definite accusative aban?, plural abalar)

(Gadabay, Quba, Ordubad, Zangilan) father
Synonym: ata

Etymology 2

From Common Turkic *apa (“mother, elder sister, aunt”).

Noun

aba (definite accusative aban?, plural abalar)

(Jabrayil, Qakh, Shamkir, Tabriz) mother
Synonym: ana
(dialectal) elder sister
(dialectal) elder sister-in-law

Declension

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic ????????? (?ab??a).

Noun

aba (definite accusative aban?, plural abalar)

Declension

References

Axundov A. A., Kaz?mov Q. ?., Behbudov S. M., editors (2007) , “aba I”, in Az?rbaycan dilinin dialektoloji lü??ti [Dialectological Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language] (in Azerbaijani), Baku: ??rq-Q?rb, ?ISBN, page 11a
Axundov A. A., Kaz?mov Q. ?., Behbudov S. M., editors (2007) , “aba II”, in Az?rbaycan dilinin dialektoloji lü??ti [Dialectological Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language] (in Azerbaijani), Baku: ??rq-Q?rb, ?ISBN, page 11a
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003) , “*apa-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003) , “*appa-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Basque

Etymology

Created by Sabino Arana in the 19th century, from a misinterpretation of the kinship suffix -ba.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a.ba/

Noun

aba anim

father

Declension

Synonyms

aita

Chibcha

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a?a/

Noun

aba

maize
corncob
maize crop

References

Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

Corsican

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?aba/

Noun

aba f (plural abe)

Alternative form of apa

References

https://infcor.adecec.net/

Dení

Noun

aba f

fish

References

“aba” in Gordon Koop, Lois Koop, Dicionário deni-português, Associação Internacional de Lingüística - SIL Brasil, 1985.

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

aba

taro

Ewe

Noun

aba

References

Galician

Etymology

Uncertain. Cognate with Portuguese aba, Spanish álabe, French aube, Romanian arip?.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?a?a?/

Noun

aba f (plural abas)

slope, hillside
Synonyms: faldra, pé
apron, smock; folds of a shirt or dress
Synonym: faldra
(anatomy) lap
Synonym: colo
brim of a hat
rim

Derived terms

abada
abeaca
abeiro

References

“aba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
“aba” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
“aba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“aba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Gothic

Romanization

aba

Romanization of ????????????

Hiligaynon

Interjection

abá

alas, gosh, well, whew
wow

Interjection

abâ

(questioning) really
(questioning) ah, oh

Noun

abá

(anatomy) shoulder blade

Verb

abá

To carry on one's back

Indonesian

Alternative forms

abah

Etymology

From Malay aba, from Arabic ???, from Proto-Semitic *?abw-. Doublet of abbas, abi, and abu.

Noun

aba

A human male who begets a child; father

Synonyms

(parent): see Thesaurus:ayah

Irish

Noun

aba

Only used in ar aba

Noun

aba m sg

genitive singular of ab

Mutation

Jamamadí

Noun

aba

(Banawá) fish

References

2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Latgalian

Etymology

Shortened from an older Baltic form *arba, which is preserved in Lithuanian as arba (the meaning differs just slightly).

Conjunction

aba

alias, AKA, or

Latvian

Adverb

aba

(archaic) just
(archaic) just now

Synonyms

nupat
tikko
patlaban

Conjunction

aba

(archaic) or

Synonyms

Adjective

aba

(archaic) both

Synonyms

Noun

aba m (4th declension, irregular gender, dative singular)

(Christianity, Judaism) Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period.

Declension

Synonyms

abba

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aba, from Proto-Austronesian *aba.

Noun

aba

(dialectal) father

Malay

Pronunciation

(Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /ab?/
(Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /aba/
Rhymes: -ab?, -b?, -?

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayic *aba, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *aba, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *aba, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aba, from Proto-Austronesian *aba.

Alternative forms

abah, bah

Noun

aba (Jawi spelling ???, plural aba-aba, informal 1st possessive abaku, impolite 2nd possessive abamu, 3rd possessive abanya)

Alternative form of abah

Etymology 2

From Arabic ???? (?ab).

Noun

aba (Jawi spelling ???, plural aba-aba, informal 1st possessive abaku, impolite 2nd possessive abamu, 3rd possessive abanya)

father (male parent)

Etymology 3

Shortened form of haba.

Alternative forms

haba

Noun

aba (Jawi spelling ???, plural aba-aba, informal 1st possessive abaku, impolite 2nd possessive abamu, 3rd possessive abanya)

Alternative form of haba

Marshallese

Etymology

Borrowed from English harbor.

Pronunciation

(phonetic) IPA^(key): [?b??]
(phonemic) IPA^(key): /?æp?æ?/
Bender phonemes: {habah}

Noun

aba

a harbor.
an anchorage.
a port.

Mezquital Otomi

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish haba (“bean; bump, nodule; equine palatitis”), from Latin faba (“bean”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /??a/

Noun

?ba

equine palatitis

Synonyms

ndodi

References

Hernández Cruz, Luis; Victoria Torquemada, Moisés (2010) Diccionario del hñähñu (otomí) del Valle del Mezquital, estado de Hidalgo (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 45)?^[3] (in Spanish), second edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 3

Middle Irish

Noun

aba

genitive singular of ab

Mutation

Old Tupi

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /??a??a/

Noun

aba

hair

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /??a??a/, /?ta??a/

Noun

aba

village, especially a typical Brazilian indigenous village.

Usage notes

The stem aba could never be used inside a sentence without a prefix. The absolute form taba was used whenever the noun was not possessed.

References

LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin alapa (“slap, smack”).

Pronunciation

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /?a.??/
(Brazil) IPA^(key): /?a.ba/
Hyphenation: a?ba
Rhymes: -aba

Noun

aba f (plural abas)

brim (of a hat)
flap (hinged leaf of furniture)
bank (of a river)
Synonym: margem
(computing) tab (navigational widget in a GUI)

Derived terms

abar
desabar

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a?ba/
Rhymes: -a
Hyphenation: a?ba

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (abâ) (Turkish aba), from Arabic ????????? (?ab??a).

Noun

aba

Thick wool-fabric, usually white, from which country-style clothing is often made.

Synonyms

dimie

Etymology 2

Interjection

aba

An interjection that expresses wonder or draws attention to something.

Sardinian

Etymology 1

From Latin ava, feminine of avus.

Noun

aba f (plural abas)

grandmother

Etymology 2

From Latin ala

Alternative forms

Noun

aba f (plural abas)

wing

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish ap, abb, from Latin abb?s, from Ancient Greek ????? (abbâs), from Aramaic ???? (’abb?, “father”).

Noun

aba m (genitive singular aba, plural abachan)

(Christianity) abbot

Derived terms

mac-an-aba

Related terms

abaid

Mutation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (abâ) (Turkish aba), from Arabic ????????? (?ab??a).

Noun

aba f (Cyrillic spelling ???)

(regional) aba

Southern Ndebele

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gàba.

Verb

-aba

to divide, to distribute

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Etymology

The Royal Spanish Academy proposes that it was introduced to Spanish from Arabic and notes some controversy over Moorish origin.

Interjection

¡aba!

caution

References

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gàba.

Verb

-ába

(transitive) to share
(transitive) to distribute

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?a?ba?/, [???ba?]

Adjective

abâ

poor, indigent
Synonyms: dukha, maralita, hirap, mahirap
humble; ordinary
Synonyms: karaniwan, pangkaraniwan
oppressed, abused
Synonyms: api, inapi, api-apihan
unfortunate
Synonym: kaawa-awa
mean, despicable
Synonym: hamak

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?a?ba/, [???ba]

Interjection

abá

an exclamation of surprise, wonder, or admiration; wow
Synonym: naku

Etymology 3

From Spanish ave.

Interjection

abá

hail!

Noun

abá

act of greeting or calling the attention of someone
Synonyms: bati, pagbati
reminder or call of attention for someone about something
Synonyms: banggit, ino, pagbanggit, pag-ino

Derived terms

Tatar

Noun

aba

Latin spelling of ??? (aba)

Turkish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aba/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *apa (“mother, elder sister, aunt”).

Noun

aba (definite accusative abay?, plural abalar)

(dialectal) elder sister
(dialectal) mother

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic ????????? (?ab??a).

Noun

aba (definite accusative abay?, plural abalar)

felt (a non-woven cloth that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing woollen fibres)

Derived terms

aba güre?i

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic ????? (??b??).

IPA^(key): /??b??/

Noun

aba

(archaic) fathers
(archaic) ancestors, forefathers
(archaic) Christian monks

Declension

Etymology 4

Noun

aba

dative singular of ab

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Venetian àcua and Italian acqua.

Noun

aba f (plural abe)

(Belluno, Informal) water

Related terms

(Belluno) àiva
(Belluno, Informal) buba

Weyewa

Noun

aba

(Loli) fat
(Loli) mouth

References

Lobu Ori, S,Pd, M.Pd (2010) , “aba”, in Kamus Bahasa Lolina [Dictionary of the Loli Language] (in Indonesian), Waikabubak: Kepala Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Barat

Wutunhua

Etymology

From Mandarin ?? (?bà).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [apa]

Noun

aba

father
Synonym: ha
Coordinate terms: ana, ma

References

Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun?^[4], University of Helsinki (PhD), ?ISBN

Xhosa

Etymology 1

From Proto-Bantu *-gàba.

Verb

-aba

(transitive) to share
(transitive) to distribute

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [â??a]

Pronoun

âba

these; class 2 proximal demonstrative.

Zazaki

Noun

aba f

felt (a non-woven cloth that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing woollen fibres)

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gàba.

Verb

-aba

(transitive) to divide, to apportion, to distribute
(transitive) to share

Inflection

Derived terms

-abela (applicative)
-abisa (causative)
-abisisa (intensive)
-abeka (neuter-passive)
-abiwa (passive)
-abana (reciprocal)
umabi
umabo

References

C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “a?a”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “a?a (6.3)”

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ara

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Tupi ara (“morpheme for bird”).

Noun

ara (plural aras)

The great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna).

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Dzongkha ????? (a rag), ultimately from Arabic ???? (?araq). Doublet of arak.

Noun

ara

A traditional alcoholic beverage consumed in Bhutan, made from rice, maize, millet, or wheat, either fermented or distilled. The beverage is usually a clear, creamy, or white color.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ara (countable and uncountable, plural aras)

saw-edged perch, Niphon spinosus

Anagrams

AAR, Aar, RAA

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Common Turkic *?ra.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [??r?]
Hyphenation: a?ra

Noun

ara (definite accusative aran?, plural aralar)

distance in space or time
1. distance (the amount of space between two points)
  Synonym: m?saf?
2. space (a chiefly empty area or volume with set limits or boundaries)
3. gap (distance in time)
4. interval, frequency (a repeated and equal distance in space or time between several objects or events)
5. while (an uncertain duration of time, a period of time)
halt, break, temporary cessation
Synonym: fasil?
a (long) succession, sequence (of events)
Synonyms: ard, ard?-aras?
(figuratively) relationship, relation, attitude
1. relationship (a way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other)
2. view, opinion (liking/approval or disliking/disapproval)
Synonym: münasib?t
(by extension) ability, skills

Declension

Derived terms

Bislama

Etymology

From English arrow.

Noun

ara

arrow

Blagar

Noun

ara

References

Antoinette Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1 (2014), p. 172

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan (compare Occitan ara), from Latin ad h?ram (compare Spanish ahora).

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?a.??/
(Valencian) IPA^(key): /?a.?a/
Rhymes: -a?e

Adverb

ara

now (at the present time)

Derived terms

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [?ara]

Noun

ara m anim ara f

Declension

Related terms

ararauna
arakanga

Danish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a?ra/, [?????]

Noun

ara c (singular definite araen, plural indefinite araer)

macaw (various parrots)

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ara.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?a?.ra?/
Hyphenation: ara

Noun

ara m (plural ara's)

macaw, parrot of the genus Ara
Also used of certain not closely related but visually similar parrots.

Ese

Noun

ara

house; building
village
(anatomy) placenta

Finnish

Noun

ara

macaw (various parrots of the genus Ara and some closely related genera)

Declension

Hypernyms

papukaija

French

Etymology

From Old Tupi arara.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a.?a/

Noun

ara m (plural aras)

macaw

Anagrams

Fyam

Noun

ara

skull

Galician

Etymology

From Latin ara.

Noun

ara f (plural aras)

altar

Synonyms

(altar): altar

Gothic

Romanization

ara

Romanization of ????????????

Hiligaynon

Noun

ara

altar stone in a Catholic church

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *ar? (“maternal relative”, “mother’s (younger) brother”), probably a Proto-Iranian borrowing, compare Avestan ????????????????????????? (br?tar), Ossetian ?????? (ærvadæ, “brother”). The ending -a in Hungarian may be a diminutive or a third-person singular possessive suffix. It gained its current meaning during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [??r?]
Hyphenation: ara
Rhymes: -r?

Noun

ara (plural arák)

(literary) bride
Synonyms: menyasszony, (archaic) mátka

Declension

References

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay ara.

Noun

ara (first-person possessive araku, second-person possessive aramu, third-person possessive aranya)

fig (tree or shrub)

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ara m (“charioteer; messenger, attendant”).

Noun

ara m (genitive singular ara, nominative plural araí)

charioteer
attendant
1. horseboy
  Synonyms: giolla capaill, giolla eich

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Irish ara (“temple”).

Noun

ara m or f (genitive singular ara or arach, nominative plural araí or aracha)

temple (of the forehead)

Declension

Feminine declension

Etymology 3

Interjection

ara!

Alternative form of arú (“Ah! No! So! Indeed!”)

Etymology 4

Noun

ara m (genitive singular ara, nominative plural araí)

Alternative form of earra (“goods; ware, merchandise; article of trade, commodity; accoutrement(s), trappings; apparel; article, thing”)

Declension

Mutation

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?a.ra/
Rhymes: -ara
Hyphenation: à?ra

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin ?ra, from Old Latin ?sa, from Proto-Italic *?z? (“altar”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eHsh?- (“hearth, fireplace”), derived from the root *h?eHs- (“to burn; hearth”).

Noun

ara f (plural are)

(Ancient Rome) The base upon which objects were sacrificed to the gods by fire.
(poetic) pyre
Synonym: rogo
(by extension) altar
Synonym: altare

References

ara¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French are, from Latin ?rea. Doublet of area and aia.

Noun

ara f (plural are)

are, measurement of area (100 square metres)

Derived terms

centiara

References

ara² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 3

From translingual Ara, from Old Tupi ara.

Noun

ara f (plural are)

macaw

Derived terms

ara ambigua
ara di cuba
ara glauca

References

ara³ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

ara

inflection of arare:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Etymology

From ?sa, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?eHs-.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /?a?.ra/, [?ä??ä]
(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.ra/, [?????]

Noun

?ra f (genitive ?rae); first declension

altar
sanctuary, refuge

Declension

First-declension noun.

Latvian

Verb

ara

3rd person singular past indicative form of art
3rd person plural past indicative form of art

Malay

Pronunciation

(Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /ar?/
(Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ara/
Rhymes: -ar?, -r?, -?

Noun

ara (Jawi spelling ????, plural ara-ara, informal 1st possessive araku, impolite 2nd possessive aramu, 3rd possessive aranya)

fig (tree or shrub)

Maori

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *sala, from Proto-Oceanic *salan, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Austronesian *zalan.

Noun

ara

path (a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians)
path (a course taken)
path (a metaphorical course)
path (a method or direction of proceeding)
road (a way for travel)
road (a path in life)
street (paved part of road in a village or a town)
track (beaten path)
track (course; way)
track (path or course laid out for a race or exercise)
track (permanent way; the rails)
way (wide path)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *‘ara, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sadar.

Verb

ara

to rise up, awake, arise, revive
N? t?tahi n?pepa te k?rero inatata nei kei te ara mai an? te reo M?ori.
Just recently a newspaper reported that the M?ori language is reviving.

Nauruan

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic [Term?], from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *da?aq, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *da?aq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *da?aq, from Proto-Austronesian *da?aq.

Noun

ara

blood (vital liquid flowing in animal bodies)

Occitan

Alternative forms

adara (Gascon)
aüra (Niçard)

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin ad h?ram.

Pronunciation

Adverb

ara

Derived terms

References

Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, ?ISBN, page 28.

Old English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /???r?/

Noun

?ra pl

nominative/accusative/genitive plural of ?r (“glory; oar”)
genitive plural of ?r (“ore; messenger”)

Old Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?ara/

Etymology 1

Univerbation of ar (“for (the sake of), because of”) +? a (“the”, neuter accusative singular)

Article

ara (triggers eclipsis)

for (the sake of) the, because of the (neuter accusative singular)

Etymology 2

Univerbation of ar (“for (the sake of), because of”) +? a (“his/her/their”)

Determiner

ara (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition, ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis, ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)

for (the sake of) his/her/its/their, because of his/her/its/their

Etymology 3

ar (“for (the sake of), because of”) +? -a (relative pronoun)

Pronoun

ara· (triggers lenition in direct relative clauses and eclipsis in indirect relative clauses)

for (the sake of) whom/which, because of whom/which

Conjunction

ara (negative arna or arná or arnacon or arnachon)

so that
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14^d17
Synonym: co
that (introduces a noun clause)

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /??a?a/

Noun

ara

day, weather

References

LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?a.ra/

Noun

ara f

macaw (parrot of genus Ara)

Declension

Noun

ara

genitive singular of ar

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin ?ra.

Noun

ara f (plural aras)

any altar for sacrifices
(Catholicism) the altar stone: the stone covered by the corporal.

Etymology 2

Verb

ara

third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of arar
second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of arar

Rapa Nui

Etymology

Noun

ara

path (a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians)
path (a course taken)
path (a metaphorical course)
path (a method or direction of proceeding)
road (a way for travel)
road (a path in life)
street (paved part of road in a village or a town)
track (beaten path)
track (course; way)
track (path or course laid out for a race or exercise)
track (permanent way; the rails)
way (wide path)

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin ar?re, present active infinitive of ar?, from Proto-Italic *ara?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?éryeti (“to plough”), from the root *h?erh?-

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a?ra/

Verb

a ara (third-person singular present ar?, past participle arat) 1st conj.

to plough

Conjugation

Synonyms

plug?ri

Related terms

arat
ar?tor
ar?tur?

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French ara, from Old Tupi ara.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?a.ra/

Noun

ara m (uncountable)

ara (bird)

Declension

References

ara in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Southern Ohlone

Conjunction

ara

References

Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta (1861) Grammar of the Mutsun language, spoken at the Mission of San Juan Bautista, Alta California (Shea’s Library of American Linguistics)?^[4], volume IV, Cramoisy Press.

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?a?a/, [?a.?a]

Verb

ara

Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of arar.
Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of arar.
Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of arar.

Swedish

Noun

ara c

ara (macaw)

Declension

Synonyms

arapapegoja

References

ara in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *h?r- (“split, divide, cleave in twain”). Cognate with Old Turkic ????????? (r¹a /?ra/).

Adjective

ara

intermediate area
interim

Noun

ara (definite accusative aray?, plural aralar)

breather
interval

Verb

ara

second-person singular imperative of aramak

References

Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “ara”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük

Venetian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin ?rea. Compare Italian aia.

Noun

ara f (plural are)

farmyard (courtyard of a farm)

Zazaki

Noun

ara (c)

breakfast

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